This month, each of us put together a ‘Let’s Play’ video covering a different aspect of Machinima. For mine, I chose to do a behind the scenes video for Heir to the Empire. Watch as I put together a scene from Chapter 14 using iClone. From animating the characters, fixing some clipping issues to lip sync and facial expressions.
And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines). This month (May 2021) we are splitting our podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (May 6), Machinima Films (May 13), Machinima Discussion (May 20) along with several interviews which we will publish separately throughout the month.
This episode was produced by Damien Valentine who is joined by hosts Ricky Grove, Phil Rice, and Tracy Harwood.
Contact and Feedback for this show: https://completelymachinima.com/#talk
The complete transcript of the episode is available at our Buzzsprout podcast page for this episode here.
Summary: Two questions for the group – one, why has science fiction been such a popular genre for machinima, and two, what are some of the game platforms that are available for scifi machinima creation. Also, Ricky shares a list of great scifi machinima.
Timestamps
00:00:38 Ricky on SciFi in Machinima
00:05:35 Tracy on Scifi in Machinima
00:06:12 Phil on SciFi in Machinima
00:14:37 Phil on BioShock
00:17:00 Damien on Babylon 5 series same gender love
00:21:38 Tracy on Peter Rasmussen
00:24:54 Ricky’s List of great scifi machinima
00:28:43 Damien on good games for scifi machinima
00:33:33 Tracy on AI based restoration of video. Should we restore old machinima films?
00:37:52 Phil on old games and restoration
00:44:46 Ricky on Microsoft 3D filmmaker and the Gman actor
LINKS
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/6020/STAR_WARS_Jedi_Knight__Jedi_Academy/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/32470/STAR_WARS_Empire_at_War__Gold_Pack/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/32470/workshop/jk
Alongside our films and discussion, this month Damien also had the chance to speak to Mark Meer, aka the voice of Commander Shepherd in the Mass Effect game. Here’s the interview.
And, Damien spoke with the cinematic designer at Bioware, Ashley Ruhl. Here’s the interview.
And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines). This month (May 2021) we are splitting our 4th podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (May 6), Machinima Films (May 13), Machinima Discussion (May 20) along with several interviews which we will publish separately throughout the month.
Episode 4 was produced by Damien Valentine who is joined by hosts Ricky Grove, Phil Rice, and Tracy Harwood.
Contact and Feedback for this show: https://completelymachinima.com/#talk
Summary: The hosts share their monthly machinima film favorites. Tracy recommends The Mandalorian Rap by JT Music, Ricky chose citizen logs 0001 by geeks actively making entertainment, and Tracy shared her pick which was a Star Wars video called shadow of the Republic by cinematic captures. There is considerable discussion of the films and their merits (or flaws).
Time Stamps:
00:28 Tracy’s Pick: Mandalorian Rap
05:41 Ricky on Still Seeing Breen machinima
06:59 Ricky’s Pick Citizen Log 0001
11:03 Damien on Star Citizen history
14:06 Phil’s comments on facial expressions in film
20:44 Damien’s Pick: Star Wars video called shadow of the Republic by cinematic captures
27:50 Tracy on the sound in the film
29:33 Phil on Star Wars music and Chewbacca’s lack of variety in speech sounds
35:41 Phil on why he didn’t choose a movie this month
Links:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/
And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines). This month (May 2021) we are splitting our podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (May 6), Machinima Films (May 13), Machinima Discussion (May 20) along with several interviews which we will publish separately throughout the month.
This episode was produced by Damien Valentine who is joined by hosts Ricky Grove, Phil Rice, and Tracy Harwood.
Contact and Feedback for this show:
https://completelymachinima.com/#talk
Summary: Damien and the gang share Star Wars memories, Ricky sharesiClone 7.9 update includes Acculips, ExPlus, and Advanced MoCap. Tracy talks about the winners announced for the first virtual storytellers challenge. Phil shares a new year-long VR course. In addition, we cover Mass Effect remastered launches this month, Star Trek adopting the same virtual set technology as the Mandalorian and the Milan Film Festival now accepting submissions
Links
-STAR WARS https://www.starwars.com/
-iCLONE ACCULIPS UPDATE https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/lipsync-animation.html
-VIRTUAL PRODUCTION FOR STORYTELLERS WINNERS https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/winners-announced-for-first-virtual-production-for-storytellers-challenge?
-FIRST PLACE – untitled short by Ben Coello – https://vimeo.com/511463265
-SECOND PLACE – Birds of a Feather by Emanuele Lomello –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=905GlMN7zRw–THIRD PLACE – Ghost Town by Ryan Paterson – https://vimeo.com/511255904
-UNREAL VIRTUAL PRODUCTION PRIMER
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/virtual-production-primer
-GET ALL $2 TRUEBONES ITEMS FREE! https://gumroad.com/truebones
-360° VR Filmmaking Masterclass
https://completelymachinima.com/2021/04/10/360-vr-filmmaking-masterclass/
-Star Citizen https://robertsspaceindustries.com/
-Planetfall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall
-MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDITION
https://www.ea.com/games/mass-effect/mass-effect-legendary-edition
-STAR TREK USING VIRTUAL SETS
https://intl.startrek.com/videos/how-star-trek-uses-virtual-sets
-STAR TREK DISCOVERY SEASON 4 TRAILER
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a36030260/star-trek-discovery-se
And Now For Something Completely Machinima is a long-form podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies, and virtual reality. This month (April 2021) we are splitting our podcast into four sections which will post once a week: Machinima News (April 1), Machinima Films (April 8), Machinima Discussion (April 15), and a Special “Build a Machinima PC” podcast (April 22).
This episode was produced by Ricky Grove joined by hosts Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood, and Damien Valentine.
Summary: After Ricky’s Milan Machinima Festival report he brings up a question that was put to one of the Festival jurors (Henry Lowood – “…has machinima dissolved into the larger culture of streaming and game videos“) and then asks the other hosts their opinion. The next topic for discussion is the status and quality of the “Let’s Play” machinima in 2021. Phil has particularly good insights. Finally, the gang takes on a contemporary topic that might impact machinima creators in “What the Hell is NFT?“. As usual, Tracy has the best insights on this topic.
Contact and Feedback for this show: https://completelymachinima.com/#talk
00:00:38
Damien’s newest Episode of his machinima series, “Star Wars: Heir to the Empire” is out
00:02:32
Ricky’s Report on the Milan Machinima Festival
00:07:15
Ricky’s fav Milan Festival film “Fire Underground” by NIck Crockett
00:09:50
First discussion question, “..has machinima dissolved into the larger culture of streaming and game videos?“
00:10:36
Tracy’s answer
00:16:22
Phil’s take
00:23:17
Damien’s response
00:25:26
Ricky’s answer
00:32:14
Second question, “Is Let’s Play just game-play, or is it a more significant type of machinima?”
00:40:09
Ricky on a Let’s Play machinima at the Milan Machinima Festival
00:47:23
Phil on shooting “Father Frags Best”
00:52:44
Third question, “What the hell is NFT?”
01:06:50
Tracy nails the NFT question
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